Good quality. Review on Samsung SyncMaster 740N 17''

Samsung Electronics(SEC) was founded in 1969 by the name of Samsung Electric Industries. It manufactured electronic appliances such as color TVs, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners and washers. By 1981, the company had manufactured over 10 milion black-and-white TVs. In 1988, it merged with Samsung Semiconductor & Communications. It developed world's first 64M DRAM in 1992

This resolution is not the standard 4:3 aspect ratio but 5:4(1.25:1 instead of 1.333:1). A standard 4:3 monitor using this resolution will have rectangular rather than square pixels, distorting the picture and causing circles to appear elliptical.

SXGA is the most common resolution on 17", 18" and 19" desktop LCD monitors. The majority of these monitors have a physical 5:4 aspect ratio, avoiding any distortion(e.g. the Samsung SyncMaster 172T, which measures 335 x 275 mm displayable).

Apple Computer referred to displays with this resolution as "two-page displays", because they could be used to display two A4 pages side-by-side at a resolution of 72 dots per inch. Sony manufactured a 17" CRT monitor with a 5:4 aspect ratio designed for this resolution. It was sold under the Apple brand name.

Any CRT that can run 1280x1024 can also run 1280 × 960, which has the standard 4:3 ratio. It's often a matter of tweaking or changing the video driver to be able to run this resolution, as some only offer 1280x1024. Displaying any 4:3 resolution on a 5:4 monitor, like a TFT with a native resolution of 1280x1024, will look stretched. But, on a TFT, displaying any other resolution than the native one is not a good idea anyway, as the image needs to be interpolated to fit in the fixed grid display.